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A History of the County of York
… every ward for punishing vagabonds; in 1503 all vagabonds, beggars, and idle persons who had lately come to the city …
London Radicalism 1830-1843
… and toadeaters, profligates, gamblers, bankrupts, beggars, contractors, commissaries, public plunderers, …
Old and New London
… which are the counsel, reminding us of the passage in the 'Beggars' Opera' 'The charge is prepared, the lawyers are met, …
Old and New London
… and then sang 'When first I met thee,' with a pathos that beggars description. When the last word had faltered out, he …